Improvement in horse-rakes



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

IONAH ORITES, OF ORRVILLE,`OH IO.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-RAKES.

Specification ibrming part of Letters Patent No. 3l,875, dated April r2,1861.

Y have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Rakes; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the saine, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing and arranging theseveral parts of this rake in the manner hereinafter set forth.

In the annexed-drawings, Figure l represents a plan view. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical section.

In the tigures, A represents the frame of the carriage, resting upon anaxle, B, which is supported upon the two wheels C O. To the innerfaces'of the wheels O O are t'ormed or secured the drums H H. Beneaththe frame A, and secured to it in proper bearings, is a crankshaft, F.Upon each ofthe ci anks ofthis shaft are secured the grooved pulleys GG.

L is au arm secured lo the crank-shaft, which projects above it, asshown. At the rear end cfa portion ofthe frainepnarked A) is secured arectangular lever, d, which is connected to the arm L by means ot aconnecting-bar, J.

e represents a lever secured to the front portion of the frame, whichconnects to the arin L also by means of a connecting-bar, K.

E represents the rake-shaft, which is secured in proper bearings at therear of the frame. This shaft is provided with two pulleys, a: or,around which the bauds a u pass from the pulleys G G. This shaftisprovided, also, with a wheel I, which has an opening cut inits-periphery, as seen in Fig. 2, into which the free end of'the lever(l catches, when desired, for stationing the rake iu a raking position.

Mare arms extending out'from the rakeshalt, which are connected by thebars s ss.

A'lhe rake-teeth u are secured to these bars s.

When raking with this rake the end of lever d, catching in the openingin Wheel I, stations l the rake-shaft in the desired position; but whenit is desired to have the rake relieved by a discharge of the hay Ipress upon the lever e, which, hy means of the connecting-bars J and VK,operates the crank-shaft F, and also the lever d. When the lever disthrown up it relieves the wheel I, and at the same time Aagainst thedruins H H upon the 4Wheels C O by a partial revolution of thecrank-shaft, and are set in motion by the motion ofthe wheels C, andthrough the bands ci. a and pulleys the rake-shaft is thus caused tomake one revolution, discharging the hay which it has gathered. As soonas the rakeshat't has completed its revolution the power is removed fromlever e, upon which the end ot'lever d catches into the opening in wheelI, stationing it, and the pulleys upon the crank-axle recede from thedrums upon the wheel, and thus cease to exert power upon the rake-shaft.As often as the of hay or straw this operation is performed, and. it isrelieved and iliade ready fior work again.

O is a clearer, which hangs above the rake, being a bar which is hungfrom the supports M, at the iear ot the frame, by means of the rods n.'

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement ot'tlie crank-axle F, pro vided with the grooved pulleysG G and with the arm L, the drums H H upon the drivers, the bands a a,the levers d and e, the connecting-bars J and K, with the raheshait E,provided With wheel I, the several parts being arrau ged andconstructedso as to operate join'tl y, for the purpose specilied.A

JONAH cRiTEs.

In presence of- PETER WALTER, DANIEL C. WALTER.

it is relieved the pulleys G G are `pressed rake is tilled or catches asufficient quantity`

